Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Get hooked on prickly pear. Discover new ways to eat and create with prickly pear during the 8th annual Prickly Pear Festival on Friday and Saturday at the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House, in Albuquerque…
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Tag: Bloomfield
San Juan County Calendar of Events
SAN JUAN RIVER BALLOON RALLY, BLOOMFIELD June 14–16 The three-day festival at Bloomfield’s Chamblee Soccer Complex includes mass ascensions every morning, food vendors, and a balloon glow with live…
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Datebook: June 2024
ONLY SEVEN YEARS after the Stonewall uprising in New York City, almost 100 marchers came out in the summer of 1976 to celebrate the first-ever Pride march in Albuquerque. “We have a rich history of…
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True Heroes 2023: Lynda Spencer
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC was not kind to New Mexico students, and in summer 2021, Lynda Spencer was staring down a dilemma as principal of Blanco Elementary School, located east of Farmington. Many of…
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Get Hooked on Fishing
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: BEGINNER San Juan River. The state stocks the area below Cottonwood campground with rainbow trout, making it accessible to anyone regardless of skill level. DIFFICULTY LEVEL:…
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A Brief Timeline of Native History
850: First great houses built at Pueblo Bonito and Una Vida in Chaco Canyon. 1050: Chaco culture reaches its height. 1068–1072: First Chacoan structures built at what is now called Salmon Ruins. 1105:…
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Ancient Enigmas
IN THE 17TH CENTURY, the Four Corners region turned cruel. Chaco’s Ancestral Puebloan people had fled three centuries earlier, their elaborate social structure abandoned as the culture’s various…
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